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कदु प्रेष्टाविषां रयीणामध्वर्यन्ता यदुन्निनीथो अपाम्। अयं वां यज्ञो अकृत प्रशस्तिं वसुधिती अवितारा जनानाम्॥

kadu preṣṭāviṣāṁ rayīṇāmadhvaryantā yadunninītho apām | ayaṁ vāṁ yajño akṛta praśastiṁ vasudhitī avitārā janānām ||

WHAT, dearest Pair, is this in strength and riches that ye as Priests are bring from the waters? This sacrifice is your glorification, ye who protect mankind and give them treasures.

आ वामश्वासः शुचयः पयस्पा वातरंहसो दिव्यासो अत्याः। मनोजुवो वृषणो वीतपृष्ठा एह स्वराजो अश्विना वहन्तु॥

ā vāmaśvāsaḥ śucayaḥ payaspā vātaraṁhaso divyāso atyāḥ | manojuvo vṛṣaṇo vītapṛṣṭhā eha svarājo aśvinā vahantu ||

May your pure steeds, rain-drinkers, bring you hither, swift as the tempest, your celestial coursers, Rapid as thought, with fair backs, full of vigour, resplendent in their native light, O Asvins.

आ वां रथोऽवनिर्न प्रवत्वान्सृप्रवन्धुरः सुविताय गम्याः। वृष्णः स्थातारा मनसो जवीयानहम्पूर्वो यजतो धिष्ण्या यः॥

ā vāṁ ratho'vanirna pravatvānsṛpravandhuraḥ suvitāya gamyāḥ | vṛṣṇaḥ sthātārā manaso javīyānahampūrvo yajato dhiṣṇyā yaḥ ||

Your car is like a torrent rushing downward: may it come nigh, broad-seated, for our welfare,- Car holy, strong, that ever would be foremost, thought-swift, which ye, for whom we long, have mounted.

इहेह जाता समवावशीतामरेपसा तन्वा नामभिः स्वैः। जिष्णुर्वामन्यः सुमखस्य सूरिर्दिवो अन्यः सुभगः पुत्र ऊहे॥

iheha jātā samavāvaśītāmarepasā tanvā nāmabhiḥ svaiḥ | jiṣṇurvāmanyaḥ sumakhasya sūrirdivo anyaḥ subhagaḥ putra ūhe ||

Here sprung to life, they both have sung together, with bodies free from stain, with signs that mark them; One of you Prince of Sacrifice, the Victor, the other counts as Heaven's auspicious offspring.

प्र वां निचेरुः ककुहो वशाँ अनु पिशङ्गरूपः सदनानि गम्याः। हरी अन्यस्य पीपयन्त वाजैर्मथ्रा रजांस्यश्विना वि घोषैः॥

pra vāṁ niceruḥ kakuho vaśā anu piśaṅgarūpaḥ sadanāni gamyāḥ | harī anyasya pīpayanta vājairmathrā rajāṁsyaśvinā vi ghoṣaiḥ ||

May your car-seat, down-gliding, golden-coloured, according to your wish approach our dwellings. Men shall feed full the bay steeds of the other, and, Asvins they with roars shall stir the regions.

प्र वां शरद्वान्वृषभो न निष्षाट् पूर्वीरिषश्चरति मध्व इष्णन्। एवैरन्यस्य पीपयन्त वाजैर्वेषन्तीरूर्ध्वा नद्यो न आगुः॥

pra vāṁ śaradvānvṛṣabho na niṣṣāṭ pūrvīriṣaścarati madhva iṣṇan | evairanyasya pīpayanta vājairveṣantīrūrdhvā nadyo na āguḥ ||

Forth comes your strong Bull like a cloud of autumn, sending abundant food of liquid sweetness. Let them feed with the other's ways and vigour: the upper streams have come and do us service.

असर्जि वां स्थविरा वेधसा गीर्बाळ्हे अश्विना त्रेधा क्षरन्ती। उपस्तुताववतं नाधमानं यामन्नयामञ्छृणुतं हवं मे॥

asarji vāṁ sthavirā vedhasā gīrbāḻhe aśvinā tredhā kṣarantī | upastutāvavataṁ nādhamānaṁ yāmannayāmañchṛṇutaṁ havaṁ me ||

Your constant song hath been sent forth, Disposers! that flows threefold in mighty strength, O Asvins. Thus lauded, give the suppliant protection moving or resting hear mine invocation.

उत स्या वां रुशतो वप्ससो गीस्त्रिबर्हिषि सदसि पिन्वते नॄन्। वृषा वां मेघो वृषणा पीपाय गोर्न सेके मनुषो दशस्यन्॥

uta syā vāṁ ruśato vapsaso gīstribarhiṣi sadasi pinvate nṝn | vṛṣā vāṁ megho vṛṣaṇā pīpāya gorna seke manuṣo daśasyan ||

This song of bright contents for you is swelling in the men's hall where three-fold grass is.ready. Your strong rain-cloud, ye Mighty Ones, hath swollen, honouring men as 'twere with milk's outpouring.

युवां पूषेवाश्विना पुरंधिरग्निमुषां न जरते हविष्मान्। हुवे यद्वां वरिवस्या गृणानो विद्यामेषं वृजनं जीरदानुम्॥

yuvāṁ pūṣevāśvinā puraṁdhiragnimuṣāṁ na jarate haviṣmān | huve yadvāṁ varivasyā gṛṇāno vidyāmeṣaṁ vṛjanaṁ jīradānum ||

The prudent worshipper, like Pusan, Asvins! praises you as he praises Dawn and Agni, When, singing with devotion, he invokes you. May we find strengthening food in full abundance.